I do not know why the centenary celebrations of Lal Bahadur Shastri's birthday were on a low key. They came to end on October 2, his birthday. The central government allocated Rs 100 crore for the ...

Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri of India died of a heart attack last night in Tashkent, U.S.S.R., hours after signing a limited agreement on Kashmir with Ayub Khan, President of Pakistan.

On October 2nd, India commemorated the birth anniversaries of two significant figures—Mahatma Gandhi, widely known as the 'Father of the Nation', and Lal Bahadur Shastri, a former Prime Minister.